Noun

(en noun)

The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.

Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.

* Milton

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, / Almighty! thine this universal frame .

The structure of a person's body.

A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.

* , chapter=10

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames , the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}

A piece of photographic film containing an image.

* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift

Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame , they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.

A context for understanding or interpretation.

(snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.

(networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.

(bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.

(philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.

(film, animation) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th of a second.

(Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.

(baseball, slang) An inning.

(engineering, dated, mostly, UK) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.

a stocking frame'''; a lace '''frame'''; a spinning '''frame

frame of mind; disposition

to be always in a happy frame

Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.

* Shakespeare

John the bastard / Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.

A stage or level of a video game.

* 1982 , Gilsoft International, Mongoose (video game instructions) [ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/m/Mongoose.txt]

When you play the game it will draw a set pattern depending on the frame you are on, with random additions to the pattern, to give a different orchard each time.

Noun

(en noun)

(label) Moist vapour, moisture.

Any of the fluids in an animal body, especially the four "cardinal humours" of blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm that were believed to control the health and mood of the human body.

*, Book I, New York 2001, p. 147:

A humour is a liquid or fluent part of the body, comprehended in it, for the preservation of it; and is either innate or born with us, or adventitious and acquisite.

* 1763 , (Antoine-Simon Le Page Du Pratz), History of Louisisana (PG), (tr. 1774) p. 42:

For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour , when pressed, that portended danger.

(label) Either of the two regions of liquid within the eyeball, the aqueous humour and vitreous humour.

(label) A mood, especially a bad mood; a temporary state of mind or disposition brought upon by an event; an abrupt illogical inclination or whim.

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

a prince of a pleasant humour

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I like not the humour of lying.

* (1633?-1684)

Examine how your humour is inclined, / And which the ruling passion of your mind.

* (Robert South) (1634–1716)

Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humours to be endured?

*{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)

, title=, chapter=1 , passage=[…] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”}}

(label) The quality of being amusing, comical, funny.

* (Oliver Goldsmith) (1730-1774)

For thy sake I admit / That a Scot may have humour , I'd almost said wit.

* (Washington Irving) (1783-1859)

A great deal of excellent humour was expended on the perplexities of mine host.

*

They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits.

*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour .}}